Calendar: 1848-1849 Page 76

72 APPLIED SCIENCES Third Year -Practical Geoloc application to Mining Engineering Architecture and Agriculture In order more fully to exemplify the applications of the Science the Professor accompanies his Class to various Mu- seums in London including the Museum of Economic Geology and also on excursions into the Country in which the actual field-work of the Geologist is explained and illustrated There is an Examination at the close of the Easter Term by which the progress of the Students is tested Museum is in course of formation and already possesses many very interesting and instructive series of specimens Mineralogy With view to facilitate the study of Geoloyy and of the Application of Mineral Substances in the Arts The Lectures begin on the second Wednesday in the October Term and are continued on each succeeding Wednesday till the Christmas vacation after which they are resumed ami terminate about the end of March The Course commences with description of the Physical and Chemical characters of Minerals in general Physical -Crystallization Cleavage Fracture Hardness Chemical -Use of the Blow-Pipe Action of Acids &c The principal simple Minerals are next separately con- sidered and the readiest mode of distinguishing them described The Course of instruction includes minute description of all the substances entering into the composition of Bocks and of those minerals which are also used in the Arts illustrated by an extensive collection of characteristic specimens and diagrams of the principal crystalline forms &c XL Engineering Workshop The arrangements in the Workshop and the instruction given are intended to afford the Student means of becoming practically acquainted with the several details of Construction